December 10, 2013
NEW DELHI: AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday ruled out giving any support to BJP to form a government in Delhi and termed as personal comments in this regard by party leader Prashant Bhushan.
We’ll go national some day, but I don’t know when. People are getting impatient, but all this cannot be done overnight.
December 10, 2013
NEW DELHI: AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday ruled out giving any support to BJP to form a government in Delhi and termed as personal comments in this regard by party leader Prashant Bhushan.
We’ll go national some day, but I don’t know when. People are getting impatient, but all this cannot be done overnight.
"There is no question of supporting BJP. What Prashant said yesterday was his personal opinion," he tweeted on Monday morning shortly after a meeting of his party leaders which decided not to take or give support to Congress or BJP.
Bhushan had last night told a TV channel that AAP may consider supporting BJP if the party gives AAP in writing that it will pass the Jan Lokpal Bill.
The noted lawyer himself clarified on Tuesday that what he had said last night was in a rhetorical context.
"What I said was in a rhetorical context. I meant that if BJP becomes like AAP and does those things which AAP has been formed for and AAP believes in, then we can think of supporting them. But this is not possible because these parties can never become like AAP," he told reporters on Tuesday.
Asked about government formation, Kejriwal said as the single largest party, BJP should form the government and take support from Congress.
"BJP has been given the mandate. It is the single largest party. So it should try and form the government taking support of Congress," he said.
Bhushan said the party will not stake claim to form government and prefer to sit in the opposition.
"We cannot support BJP or Congress as AAP was formed as an alternative to them. People have supported us so that we can establish an alternative politics in the country," Bhushan said. : Amid continued uncertainty over government formation in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday maintained that it will neither take nor extend support to BJP or Congress as the new party was formed as an alternative to them.
Hectic consultations were on in both AAP and BJP two days after the assembly elections threw up a split verdict that gave majority to none in the 70-member House.
While BJP has emerged as the single largest party having won 31 seats, its ally Akali Dal (Badal) has bagged one constituency, leaving it four MLAs short of majority mark of 36.
AAP, on the other hand, has got 28 seats followed by Congress with eight. JD(U) has won one seat while the Mundka seat has gone to an Independent.
BJP has also said that it will not stake claim to form government.
"We have no numbers. We do not want to purchase any MLA," former BJP president Nitin Gadkari, who is party in charge for Delhi, had said on Monday.
The AAP legislators had on Monday unanimously elected Kejriwal as their leader in the Delhi assembly.
Asked about newly elected AAP MLA from Seemapuri, Dharmendra Singh Koli, being booked on charges of molestation and rioting on a complaint by former Congress MLA Veer Singh Dhinghan, party spokesperson Manish Sisodia said the allegations were politically motivated.
Courtesy: PTI
